Suspender cast-off



Patented Feb. 7, 1899.

c. T. S HAFER. SUSPENDEB CAST-OFF.

(Application filed 0 :t. 27, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES THOMAS SHAFER, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF TWO- THIRDS TOWILLIAM SOHEFFEL, OF WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

SUSPENDER CAST-OFF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 619,001, dated.February '7, 1899.

Application filed October 27, 1898.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES THOMAS SHAFER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Springfield, in the county of Clark and State ofOhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SuspenderCast-Offs, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of my invention to provide a simple form of cast-offfor suspender-ends, so as to readily hold the parts together and to asreadily allow of the detachment of the parts when this is required.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows in elevation one form of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a sectional View thereof, and Fig. 3 shows theparts detached. Fig. 4 is a view of a modified form, and Fig. 5 is stillanother modification.

The tabs are shown at A, connected in the usual manner and provided witha loop a, while the body of the suspender is shown at B, and this passesthrough a loop bin the usual manner. The loop 19 carries a plate O, andthis plate is bifurcated, as at c, and the ends of the bifurcatedportion are rolled up in a semicylindrical form, as shown at d. Theseends serve to contain and support a barrel eof the form shown in Fig. 8,being a partial cylinder at the ends and having a projecting tang in thecenter, as shown at f, this tang working in the bifurcation of the plate0. When the tang is practically horizontal, the openings of the barrelregister with the openings in the semicylindrical end portions and theloop a can be readily inserted or detached at will. After the loop is inplace the Serial to. 694,733. (No model.)

tang is then turned up against the face-plate O, which turns the openpart of the barrel inwardly, closing the opening, thus locking the loopa in place and preventing its removal.

In Fig. at substantially the same construction isshown, except that theplate G is not bifurcated to the same extent and the central tang ismade wider and the barrel fits so closely the semicylindrical socketscl, formed in the plate 0, that it has something of a spring action.

In Fig. 5 the barrel is reversed in position within the turned-up endsof the plate 0 and the tang is made wider and instead of occupying ahorizontal position when the parts are in position to cast off the tangis in a vertical position at this time and it is given a quarter or ahalf turn to lock the loop in place.

What I claim is- A metal cast-off for suspenders, comprising a platehaving a bifurcated lower end with the projections d on each sidethereof turned up to form a socket and a combined barrel and tangfitting said socket with openings in the barrel adapted to register withcorresponding openings in the turned-up ends ofthe plate, said barreladapted to be turned up by the tang, the said tang being centrallyarranged and working between the projections, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature v in presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES THOMAS SHAFER. Witnesses:

CHAS. I. WELcH, EARL G. WELcH.

